From: jsoluri (jsoluri@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Sun Jan 19 2003 - 15:41:40 EST
All,
Just to reinforce Matt's message: I actually met Gary Grant in North
Carolina. He is a very interesting person and well worth checking out.
Incidentally, the peace rally in DC was very inspiring yesterday -- lots of
good energy and more people than the media suggested were in attendance.
PWR should consider making a banner for the Peace Convergence happening
this week in the burgh. Many speakers focused on the injustice of sending
mostly people of color to fight, while the mostly white, wealthy sons and
daughters of the powerful sit on the sidelines. ALSO, Bush's aggressive
stance against affirmative action ties into the larger issues of leveling
the playing field for all people, including children of CMU staff people.
All of which is just to say that connections exist between the war,
affirmative action, and PWR's agenda !
John Soluri
--On Friday, January 17, 2003 7:44 PM -0500 mtoups@andrew.cmu.edu wrote:
>
> Hello PWR,
>
> as Alisha mentioned, we'll be getting together briefly
> on Monday to get things organized for the semester.
> The Spring Activities Fair will be held this coming
> thursday at 4:30pm in Rangos Ballroom, and we will be there.
>
> I'd also like to encourage people to attend CMU's
> MLK Day events -- though CMU has always half-heartedly
> celebrated the holiday, the keynote speaker is often
> very very good. Also, this is an excellent time to
> bring up the issues of racial and economic injustice
> at CMU that PWR is challenging and how it relates to
> the MLK legacy.
>
> Also, there is a cool event at Pitt Monday night
> Sponsored by the Black Radical Congress, info below.
>
> Matt
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>
> This is the thing that the Black Radical Congress talked to us about last
> semester. Hope to see you there.
>
> Gary Grant of BFAA - Black Farmers and Agriculturalist Association
> in commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr Day
> Monday, Jan. 20th
> David Lawrence 105
> 6:30 PM
>
> The Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association (BFAA) is a grassroots,
> volunteer organization created in 1997 in direct response to the
> staggering decline in African American farmers and landowners. As of
> February 1998 there are BFAA chapters in 21 states across the country.
> Mr. Grant will talk about the problems of land loss and racist lending
> policies that black farmers face and what we can do to help.
>
> In 1920. 1 in every 7 farmers was Black.
> In 1982, 1 in every 67 farmers was Black.
> In 1910, black farmers owned 15.6 million acres of farm land nationally.
> In 1982 Black farmers owned 3.1 million acres of farm land nationally.
> Between 1920 and 1992 the number of black farmers in the U.S. declined
> from 925,710 to 18.816 or by 98 percent.
> In 1984 and 1985, the USDA lent $1.3 billion to farmers nationwide to buy
> land. Of the almost 16,000 farmers who received those funds, only 209 were
> Black.
> Almost half of all black-operated farms are smaller than 50 acres.
> In the late 1980's, there were less than 200 African-American farmers in
> the United States under the age of 25.
>
> here's the poster:
> http://www.zi-activism.net/downloads/test/bfaa_v3.pdf
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